Read The Following Passage and Mark The Letter A, B, C, or D On Your Answer Sheet To Indicate The Correct Answer To Each of The Questions
Read The Following Passage and Mark The Letter A, B, C, or D On Your Answer Sheet To Indicate The Correct Answer To Each of The Questions
Read The Following Passage and Mark The Letter A, B, C, or D On Your Answer Sheet To Indicate The Correct Answer To Each of The Questions
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Question 48: The word "there" in the passage refers to ______.
A. polar ice mass in the last 50 years B. the temperature increase
C. new vegetation growth D. in the Antarctic Peninsula
Question 49: In paragraph 4, the author explains the loss of polar and glacial ice by______.
A. stating an educated opinion B. referring to data in a study
C. comparing sea levels worldwide D. presenting his research
Question 50: The word "conclusive" in the passage is closest in meaning to ______.
A. definite B. independent C. unique D. valuable
Question 51: Why does the author mention the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in paragraph 6?
A. The location near the coast endangers the Scripps facility.
B. Research at Scripps indicates that the ocean is getting warmer.
C. One quarter of the rising sea levels has been recorded at Scripps.
D. Records at Scripps have been kept for nearly one hundred years.
Question 52: Which of the sentences below best expresses the information in the highlighted statement
in the passage? The other choices change the meaning or leave out important information.
A. Global warming on the surface of the planet may have been retarded during the last
hundred years because heat in the atmosphere was absorbed by the oceans.
B. Global warming on the surface of the ocean was greater than it was on the rest of the
planet during the past century because of heat in the atmosphere.
C. Too much heat in the atmosphere has caused global warming on the surface of the planet for
the past hundred years in spite of the moderation caused by the oceans.
D. There is less heat being absorbed by the oceans now than there was a hundred years ago
before the atmosphere began to experience global warming
Question 53: According to paragraph 7, why will people move away from the coastlines in the future?
A. It will be too warm for them to live there. B. The coastlines will have too much vegetation.
C. Flooding will destroy the coastal areas. D. No agricultural crops will be grown on the coasts.
Question 54: Which of the following statements most accurately reflects the author's opinion about
rising sea levels? A. Sea levels would rise without global warming. B. Rising sea levels can be reversed.
C. The results of rising sea levels will be serious. D. Sea levels are rising: because of new glaciers.
Question 55: Look at the four squares and choose where the following sentence would best fit,
‘During the last century, sea level rose 10-20 cm, a rate 10 times higher than the average rate during
the last 3,000.’
A. square (A). B. square (B). C. square (C). D. square (D).
Mark letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 56: By the end of last year, the number of adult English speakers in Asia _____ 350 million.
A. was reaching B. were reaching C. had reached D. would have reached
Question 57: On returning home from abroad,______.
A. she found it hard to adapt to her home country. B. it was hard for her to adapt to her home country.
C. adapting to her home country was hard. D. she was hard adapting to her home country.
Question 58:’Would you mind helping me with these heavy boxes?’ - ‘_____!’
A. My Gosh B. Yes, I would C. Not at all D. What a pity
Question 59: It may have _____ your notice, but it’s Mrs. Hodges’ birthday today.
A. slipped B. escaped C. missed D. skipped
Question 60: How long are you going to be _____ the computer? I need to send an email.
A. at B. in C. on D. to
Question 61: Color and light, taken together, ______ the aesthetic impact of the interior of a building.
A. very influence powerfully B. very powerfully influence `C. powerfully very influence D. influence
powerfully very
Question 62: Tommy had his brother _____ his shoes for him.
A. tie B. to tie C. tied D. tying
Question 63: The librarian asked the students to _____ from talking.
A. suppress B. repeal C. refrain D. subdue
Question 64: _____ he should have spent all the weekend preparing for the test, he in fact just lay in
bed watching videos. A. Whereas B. However C. Nevertheless D. Despite
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